The kind of the entity.
A kind matching regex .* is reserved/read-only.
A kind must not contain more than 1500 bytes when UTF-8 encoded.
Cannot be "".
Must be valid UTF-8 bytes. Legacy values that are not valid UTF-8 are
encoded as bytes<X> where <X> is the base-64 encoding of the
bytes.
The kind of the entity.
A kind matching regex .* is reserved/read-only.
A kind must not contain more than 1500 bytes when UTF-8 encoded.
Cannot be "".
Must be valid UTF-8 bytes. Legacy values that are not valid UTF-8 are
encoded as bytes<X> where <X> is the base-64 encoding of the
bytes.
The name of the entity.
A name matching regex .* is reserved/read-only.
A name must not be more than 1500 bytes when UTF-8 encoded.
Cannot be "".
Must be valid UTF-8 bytes. Legacy values that are not valid UTF-8 are
encoded as bytes<X> where <X> is the base-64 encoding of the
bytes.
The name of the entity.
A name matching regex .* is reserved/read-only.
A name must not be more than 1500 bytes when UTF-8 encoded.
Cannot be "".
Must be valid UTF-8 bytes. Legacy values that are not valid UTF-8 are
encoded as bytes<X> where <X> is the base-64 encoding of the
bytes.
The name of the entity.
A name matching regex .* is reserved/read-only.
A name must not be more than 1500 bytes when UTF-8 encoded.
Cannot be "".
Must be valid UTF-8 bytes. Legacy values that are not valid UTF-8 are
encoded as bytes<X> where <X> is the base-64 encoding of the
bytes.
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